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1 August 2012

Can the world’s problems be solved by computation?

On 21 June 2012, 12 winners of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair awards competition, organized by the Society For Science and The Public, in the US, visited CERN. Their achievements include a visualization tool that could help reduce global CO2 and a faster code to solve non-linear equations – their average age was 17 years old. We caught up with four whose projects were driven by computing.

Adrian Giordani
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Nature’s subway: Quantum tunneling in enzymes

Researchers use the latest computational methods to understand quantum tunneling in enzymes, which may help develop predictive medicine and designs for new catalysts.

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Hear a Higgs through its data

The Higgs boson-like particle has been turned into music. Not only is this a way to bridge the gap between science and the public, but it could enable researchers to hear their work in a new light.

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Five billion years of lunar evolution in two minutes
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Big science needs Mickey Mouse models

The largest scientific projects in the world, including the Large Hadron Collider or the Square Kilometre Array, still require simple models to help researchers understand the results.

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